On trunk I generalized validation quite a bit. There's the concept of ExceptionHandlers that act upon every issue that occurs during validation; one of the implementations constructs a (configurable) acknowledgement message containing properly configured MSA and ERR segments.
cheers Christian James Agnew wrote: > > Hi Eugene, > > Re. multiple errors: > The HL7 "ACK" message type actually allows you to specify the details of > more than one error in your response, using the repeatable ERR segment. > The > *generateAck(String, HL7Exception)* method only populates the first one, > since this is a common use case, but there is nothing stopping you from > grabbing multiple reps and populating each one with the details. > E.g. > firstException.populate(ackMessage.getERR(0), null); > secondException.populate(ackMessage.getERR(1), null); > // etc.... > > Really, we should probably have a varargs (HL7Exception...) version of the > generateAck method. I've filed an enhancement request to that effect. I > think it would make sense.. > > Re. non-HL7 errors: > This is generally handled by using specific acknowledgement codes. I don't > have HL7 chapter 2 handy right now, so I'll paraphrase a bit, but this is > how the ACK code is generally used: > AA - Message was successfully processed > AR - Message was not successful because of an issue with the message (bad > contents, etc.) > AE - Message was not successful because of an issue with the server > (unexplained exceptions, IO errors, etc.) > > This is only a guideline though. Every sending system will have it's own > interpretation of how these ack codes should be interpreted, so in the end > your best bet is to be flexible and let things be configured by specific > implementations. > > Cheers, > James > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Eugene Berman > <eugene.ber...@mulesoft.com>wrote: > >> I'm very new to HAPI, so sorry for the stupid questions :) >> I'm trying to figure out what is the best way to generate ACK message in >> case I have multiple processing errors. E.g. I receive a message and then >> validation fails, producing multiple errors. The generateACK() method >> only >> accepts one HL7Exception as a parameter, so how do I handle the situation >> when there are multiple errors? Or should I just pick the first one? >> >> Also, what is the best way to handle the non-HL7 error - e.g. general >> system error which is not related to any HL7-specific problem? >> >> Thanks a lot, >> >> Eugene >> >> -- >> Eugene Berman >> Sr. Enterprise Solutions Engineer >> ---- >> MuleSoft Inc. >> 77 Geary Street, Ste. 400 >> San Francisco, CA 94108 >> Office: 415 229 2063 >> Website: http://www.mulesoft.com <http://www.mulesoft.com/> >> --- >> Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem! >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >> Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics >> Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct >> _______________________________________________ >> Hl7api-devel mailing list >> Hl7api-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hl7api-devel >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > Hl7api-devel mailing list > Hl7api-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hl7api-devel > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/HL7-Error-Handling-and-ACK-tp34577960p34590400.html Sent from the hl7api-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Hl7api-devel mailing list Hl7api-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hl7api-devel
